The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-04-14
FACT AND FANCY.

Successful illustrated paper-bank note
A man Of "no account" pays as he goes.
To get up pork and beans-take an emetic.
Clutchlng at straws Is overdone in this
country.
1t depends on the liver, whether life Is
worth living.
Nearly S25000000 worth Of candy was mad,
In California the past year.
In Kentucky last year nearly 100000
bushels more Of corn was raised than 1885.
There are 9,199 licensed saloons in New
York city, or one saloon to every 40 lnhabl-
tants.
II takes 500 patents to protect the modern
bicycle with its improvements from infringe.
ments.
Railway carriages are now fitted up az
churches In Russia, so that the people can wor-
ship as they travel
The Penobscot ice crop is estimated at 1922
0)0 tons for the season, Notwithstanding the
unfavorable weather.
1t is estimated that the cotton crop of the
year is G,6i0,0OO bales. The quality is very
superior to that Of last year.
is being used in the Philadelphia gas works
The imported fuel is the Scottish Camel.
The Central Vermont railroad is to have an
experimental system OF heating cars by steam
from the locomotive In operation in few days.
In some churches there is more rejoicing
over one pewhoder who pays 500 than oveI
ninety and nine young converts who pay IS
piece,
There were Q, l47 fires In London last year.
The engines attached to the land stations
made 80, S32 Journeys and used 10, 900, 600 gal
Ions Of water.
country subscriber writes to ask Show Il
treat kerosene lamp" II is the usual Gus
tom to treat lamp to oil. Very few lamps
care for beer or whisky
1t Is now possible TO construct complete
sewing machines at the rate Of one every
minute, or sixty In one hour 300 watches In
day; reaper every fifteen minutes or less,
and one locomotive day.
Gen. Simon Cameron says that his son Don
would have been great man II he had moi
been born rich. This remark should edify the
increasing number OF people who regard
WeulIu INC Duolb VI bIctlucsS.
The Rev. Waldo Messaros, of Philadelphia,
said from his pulpit the other day: 'Few men
tread the religious press; 1t is not vivid
enough; there is too much patchwork, too
much staleness, and there is not the enterprise
Of the secular press"
An item which will interest stamp collectors
Is the following: The son OF the Duchess de
Galllere is thought to possess the finest collec-
tion Of postage stamps In the world 1t fills
300 volumes, and he has spent over S35O0OO
in satisfying his hobby.
A gentleman who wanted to consult the poet
Tennyson about some literary work, wrote
twenty letters before he received a reply
When the answer came 1t tersely stated:
Dear Slr-It is a fact, alas, but no fancy,
hat half my letters are unopened"
Perhaps the saddest state OF things revealed
by the recent earthquakes is that in one hotel
a solitary young man dwelt In company with
fourteen unmarried ladies and siXty-eighi
widows. That young man must have had some
reassuring TO do when the earth began to
quake.
Stella Hays, aged H. and irwin Laughlin,
aged 10, both girls and both Of Plttsburg are
heirs to millions Stea's grandfather left
S5,0O0,000 TO be divided among four heirs,
of which she is one and Irwin is an orphan
and win have more than $1,000, 900 when she Is
Of age.
at is common sense and not education thai
makes a woman" said an old man mournful
ly. ~ spent fortune educating my daugh
ter aud when her education was completed she
went off aud married a dude who died OF
hood poisoning caused by sucking the head Of
his cane"
II sounds funny, but the name of the new
consul to Mexico, a Missouri, gentleman, Is
Elizabeth Caroline More. He was named for
his two grandmothers His grandfather;
seem to have been neglected. San Francisco
Alta 1t is funny, especially as the gentle
mans name is Eanson c. More
The proprietor of genial storen In West |
ern town having received some filters from
the East, put up a sign reading "Filters will
make river water 1t to drlnk;n but had TO
take II down after fourteen men had come 10
and asked foc some "fllter,n under the i'm
preston that 1t was n new brand OF whisky.
A large brass chicken in the shape OF an ink
stand is the latest novelty The boarding |
house keepers are experimenting with them to |
ascertain II the shadow Of one Of these will not |
make as rich chicken soup as a photograph |
from the original hen. does. This would ena.
BILE them to combine business aud ornament
in great shape.
Female students are pretty numerous in
Paris. Most OF them are Russians, generally
very poor, so they club together in small sets
many OF them have brothers or husbands
with them who are students also-and put